• Timeout policy (v5.0 onwards)
• Purpose
• Premise: 'Don't wait forever'
• Syntax
• Operation
• Optimistic timeout
• Pessimistic timeout
• Additional notes: Pessimistic timeout for async executions
• Additional notes: Pessimistic timeout for sync executions
• What happens to the timed-out delegate?
• Pessimistic timeout
• Optimistic timeout
• Further reading
• Configuration recommendations
• Use optimistic timeout with HttpClient calls
• Combining timeout with retries
• Thread safety and policy reuse
• Thread safety
• Policy reuse